Whidbey Island’s Keystone Cafe Is For Sale (and More Updates)

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• A real estate listing buries the lede a bit: This four-bedroom, four-bathroom home on 2.5 acres in Coupeville is for sale for $699,000 — oh, P.S., no biggie, but one of Whidbey Island’s fish-and-chips joints, Keystone Cafe, is included, and the new owner “can operate the well-established operation or lease out.”
• As millennials in China increasingly switch from tea to coffee, Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts are expanding aggressively in the area to capitalize on the trend.
• Jude’s Old Town in Rainier Beach is the proud host of Seattle’s fifth “streatery,” the silly but official SDOT term for a cool program converting parking spaces into outdoor dining and public gathering spaces.
• Because Google doesn’t have a monopoly on terrible practices, Taylor Shellfish is settling allegations of racial harassment against a black maintenance mechanic for $160,000. The news came on the same day the company applied for a liquor license for its long-awaited Bellevue location at 500 Bellevue Way NE.
• A West Seattle staple, Blackboard Bistro, is for sale, as owners Jacob and Ginger Wiegner have had to cut back operations to care for family, a grim specter that looms over everyone in a country where the ruling class is determined to slash what limited healthcare currently exists.